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Our Favorite She-roes!
Queen Latifah Giving Back Royally 
Queen Latifah burst onto the scene as a beat boxer and rapper for the hip-hop group Ladies Fresh. Blown away by her talent, Tommy Boy Music signed her and put out her first single in 1988. Since then it has been a continuous upward climb for the queen. Latifah, born Dana Owens, was raised in New Jersey by her school teacher mother and police-officer father. In high school she played basketball, performed in school plays, and worked on her rap game. After graduation, Latifah was signed to a record contract, and following her...Read More
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The Great Gatsby!
Scott and Zelda: A Marriage on Fire
By Ron Hogan
F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre while he was stationed in Alabama, serving in the United States Army during the First World War-just as Jay Gatsby first meets Daisy in the backstory to The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Gatsby loses Daisy to Tom Buchanan for a while, but unlike Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to marry his love... two weeks after Scribner agreed to publish his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which finally convinced the 20-year-old debutante of his ability to provide for her.
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My Best Friend's Husband
From the train window I could see the arid reaches of Nevada, yellow gray in the late sunlight, stretching as far as the eye could see to the distant mountains that hung motionless and unreal against the sky. As quiet and gray and barren as my own heart, I thought. As barren as all the years ahead of me--as all the years behind! I straightened my skirt and carefully folded my jacket to lay it on the green plush of the seat next to me. In fifteen minutes we'd be in Steamboat Springs, and Marie and Dan would be waiting at the station to...Read More
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